# I forget, do we have a general HurricaneDitka Pit thread?

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [January 6, 2018, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952 "2018-01-06T00:15:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2018, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/490 "2018-09-05T12:30:50Z")

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I have a confession to make. I went looking for an older racist quote I remembered by **HurricaneDitka** and found this:

> [@Living while black in America](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-while-black-in-america/817611/446):
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> … Anyways, how is living while black in America working for you and would another location be more suitable? If I lived in a place that was actively hostile towards me I’d look for a nicer area.

:smack: I don’t know whether to be glad that I’ve not wasted brain cells to distinguish two racist dolts from each other, or saddened that I’m not using the opportunity to work on an academic paper, “Detecting slight cognitive differences between very similar specima of North American _Homo fatuus_.”

Anyway, **Mr. Ditka** [now believes there’s only a 5% chance that DeSantis’ snide “monkey” remark is racist.](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21188001&postcount=83)

We’re left to wonder:

- Is Hurricane so dull-witted he doesn’t know what dog whistles are, or how to recognize them? Or
- Is he the perfect target of a dog whistler, his subconscious reacting while not even knowing he’s being manipulating? Or
- Is he well aware that DeSantis was dog-whistling but knows that to admit that would undermine his pretense that the GOP isn’t stinking of evil?  
But at this point — who cares?

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